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MaksimMislavsky

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  1. 3 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

    If past history indicates ongoing stay in los, which most likely involve tourist visas then good chance ed visa reject.

    Exactly what I'm worried about. Although I think one is quite unlikely to develop an intention to study anything in Thailand with no past history of staying there. It was deemed perfectly OK to stay just for fun back then.

  2. 46 minutes ago, thequietman said:

    Cause we're stealing their jerbs and their women folk. ????

     

    We are also buying up all their land and properties - No, wait - we're not allowed to!

     

    Sorry, I have no idea. Wait! I remember now, we are all terrorists. That's it - we're terrorists. I knew it would come to me. ????

    They are probably just tired of us.

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  3. 3 hours ago, Matzzon said:

    It´s just the way you are thinking rthat makes problem for people that apply for visas. You just thing that you can take an ED visa as an option for can stay in Thailand, and not for study like it´s supposed to be for. That´s exactly why it´s getting harder for the once that actually apply for an ED visa with the reason to study.

    That's exactly what I want - to study. And I need a certificate in Thai language. But with all the recent mess, I'm feeling very insecure to proceed.

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  4. 7 hours ago, aqua4 said:
    8 hours ago, TDCNINJA said:

    I don't think they want us living in their country anymore. For what's it worth, I didn't see any Chinese or other Asians get pulled out of line. 

     

    I have said that for the past year as it is becoming more obvious. 

    It has been becoming more and more obvious for the last five years at least, I reckon.

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  5. 11 hours ago, GreasyFingers said:

    Good to hear from people that think about place names. My Thai is useless but we have many villages here that are Huai... or  Thong....  Any explanation of what the words mean would be appreciated.

    Huai = Creek or stream

    Thong most likely = Gold (can also be flag or banner)

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  6. On 9/14/2019 at 5:56 AM, cooked said:

    Thai interest in the science of the origin of place names is near zero, I'm sure there are many interesting stories behind many names. 

    https://www.eki.ee/knab/valik/gzth.pdf gives a few explanations of common place names but  is unsatisfactory. In Switzerland there isn't a single place name on a map that hasn't been researched. Immigration police asked me out of intellectual curiosity, what the name of our village meant. Nobody seems to know or care, there's a lot of "that's just the way it is" in Thailand, not that I mind.

    Well,  actually great many geo names in Thailand bear a clear meaning (often Sanskrit/Pali derived, as noted by another poster above, or explicitly descriptive like "Unmilled Rice" (Khaosarn) or "White Lotus" (Buakhao)) which is obvious right away to most at least basically literate Thai people. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, CangguSurfer said:

    It's all very hard to understand.  I mean, I can appreciate them denying a visa if they think the applicant might be secretly seeking to work in Thailand, or that they don't have the financial means to live here, but that doesn't seem to be the case.  It's just arbitrary, and there are no unified criteria among the different Consulates.  Each seems to have their own set of rules, and they are constantly changing from one day to the next.

     

    They are apparently seeking to reduce the number of long-staying foreigners by all means without explicitly saying so. This is the general policy at the moment, and it is understandable.

     

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  8. 7 minutes ago, JackThompson said:

    But bootstrapping that system into place on family-farms takes some cash, and isn't a big ROI thing - more like insurance.

    I'm no expert but my impression  is that, long-term, the sustainability/reasonable sufficiency principle proposed by HM should work pretty well, assuming that (fast) cash is not the only priority as ROI can come in non-monetary/non-material form, too. 

  9. 1 hour ago, JackThompson said:

    Yes, and there is Bhutan as an extreme example.  But the loss of jobs, which fund so much development in the provinces, in particular, would not be popular.

    Yes, and this is all the matter of priorities and perspective. Your reasoning makes perfect sense in the Western perspective and I won't even try to disprove it.  But Thais probably have their priorities skewed towards the Bhutanese end of the spectrum (where they even have the Ministry of Happiness, afaik), and it is up to them. TiT. This is what is more or less behind my "theory" ???? 

     

    And no, it doesn't justify arbitrary denial of entry to a legitimate visa holder abiding to written rules. I don't mean it, just to be clear.

     

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